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Chapter 3 achieved
29 November 2014 12:23 amThird chapter finished, after some fiddling to the last two paragraphs of what I did last night. Thanks to the added half-scene carried over from the previous effort I now have a third five-thousand word chapter; this story just seems to run that way...
And in consequence the scheduled Meg-and-Erik scene at the end of Chapter Three is going to have to be a separate chapter all of its own, and I'm going to need to carry my Happy Ending forward somehow to the end of that. Since this simply consists of Christine's realisation that Raoul making ridiculous and unworkable assurances about the future is in itself a very good sign that things are back to normal(!), it can be fitted into more or less any setting. But it probably will need to be yet another Christine PoV-scene, though, and we've had rather a lot of those.
I rather think the forthcoming scene is going to need to be from Meg's point of view -- not just because I'm running scared of actually trying to get inside the Phantom's head, but for the highly practical reason that if I'm writing from his point of view I'm almost certainly going to need to name him, and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Phantom is not 'Erik' to me :-P
This of course throws up other problems, not least that she is not the most unbiased of narrators and the fans are going to expect some sympathy for him, but also that there are limits to what he can plausibly tell her -- and at some stage I really do need to handle his (implicit offstage) decision to renounce Christine once more, having essentially skated over it in two chapters already.
And in consequence the scheduled Meg-and-Erik scene at the end of Chapter Three is going to have to be a separate chapter all of its own, and I'm going to need to carry my Happy Ending forward somehow to the end of that. Since this simply consists of Christine's realisation that Raoul making ridiculous and unworkable assurances about the future is in itself a very good sign that things are back to normal(!), it can be fitted into more or less any setting. But it probably will need to be yet another Christine PoV-scene, though, and we've had rather a lot of those.
I rather think the forthcoming scene is going to need to be from Meg's point of view -- not just because I'm running scared of actually trying to get inside the Phantom's head, but for the highly practical reason that if I'm writing from his point of view I'm almost certainly going to need to name him, and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Phantom is not 'Erik' to me :-P
This of course throws up other problems, not least that she is not the most unbiased of narrators and the fans are going to expect some sympathy for him, but also that there are limits to what he can plausibly tell her -- and at some stage I really do need to handle his (implicit offstage) decision to renounce Christine once more, having essentially skated over it in two chapters already.
